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- Ladon – Mythopedia
Ladon was a formidable serpent or dragon, tasked with guarding the golden apples hidden in the Garden of the Hesperides When Heracles came to steal the apples for his eleventh labor, he first had to find a way around the imposing Ladon
- Daphne - Mythopedia
There were several different versions of Daphne’s parentage Some said that she was the daughter of Ladon, the name of an Arcadian river and its god, or of Ladon and the primordial earth goddess Gaia Others said that Daphne was the daughter of a different river, the Peneus in Thessaly
- Medusa - Mythopedia
Other sources gave Ladon different parents ↩; Hesiod, Theogony 295–97 (though the reading of these lines is disputed) ↩; Apollonius of Rhodes’ Argonautica 4 828ff; Eustathius on Homer’s Odyssey 12 85; scholia on Apollonius of Rhodes’ Argonautica 4 828; scholia on Plato’s Republic 9, 588c However, other sources gave Scylla
- Phorcys - Mythopedia
Together they were the parents of several terrifying monsters, sometimes known as “Phorcides” (after their father) These offspring included the white-haired Graeae, the stony-faced Gorgons, the snake monster Echidna, and the gigantic serpent who guarded the Garden of the Hesperides (sometimes called Ladon, but other times unnamed)
- Graeae - Mythopedia
They had a host of siblings no less monstrous than they were These included the terrible Gorgons (Sthenno, Euryale, and Medusa), as well as, in some traditions, the dragon Ladon (guardian of the Garden of the Hesperides), the snake-monster Echidna, the Hesperides, Scylla, and Thoosa (mother of the Cyclops Polyphemus) Mythology
- Echidna - Mythopedia
Echidna was a primeval female monster, usually represented as a woman from the waist up and a snake from the waist down She was said to have been the mother of some of the most fearsome monsters of Greek myth, including Cerberus, the Chimera, and the Hydra
- Ceryneian Hind – Mythopedia
Though Heracles finally managed to capture the Ceryneian Hind alive, there are different accounts of how he accomplished this In one, the hind arrived at Mount Artemisius in Arcadia, where it tried to cross the Ladon River But just as it was about to cross, Heracles shot its legs with one of his arrows
- Gorgons – Mythopedia
The Gorgons’ monstrous siblings (and half-siblings) included the Graeae—three white-haired and wizened sisters —as well as, in some traditions, the dragon Ladon (guardian of the Garden of the Hesperides), the snake-monster Echidna, the Hesperides, Scylla, and Thoosa (mother of the Cyclops Polyphemus)
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